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I have a ken onion shun bread knife, bought it on ebay for less than $70 i believe. the curved handle makes for a nice offset and gives you knuckle clearance. blade chipped pretty easily though. might send it to shun for resharpening.

I would be very interested in seeing how they deal with chips in the blade. I repaired the edge on one of their paring knives for my sister but was unable to get all of the chips out.

I had a few of the Shun damascus knives for a while. It seemed like there were some inclusions in the core steel as small cips "fell out" during use and even during sharpening. For VG-10 this is very strange unless they have gotten a really bad batch of VG-10. I know VG-10 can be chippy if tempered wrong, but in my case small pieces of the steel like a small pinhead size just fell out.

I had a few of the Shun damascus knives for a while. It seemed like there were some inclusions in the core steel as small cips "fell out" during use and even during sharpening. For VG-10 this is very strange unless they have gotten a really bad batch of VG-10. I know VG-10 can be chippy if tempered wrong, but in my case small pieces of the steel like a small pinhead size just fell out.

DarkHOeK

weird. bad batch would be my guess, as none of my Shuns have ever done that.